Learn about this topic in these articles:

contributions to location theory

Johann Heinrich von Thünen, a Prussian landowner, introduced an early theory of agricultural location in
Der isolierte Staat (1826) (
The Isolated State). The Thünen model suggests that accessibility to the market (town) can create a complete system of agricultural land use. His model envisaged a single market surrounded by farmland, both situated on a plain of complete...

discussed in biography

In 1810 Thünen began gathering data for the book for which he is remembered,
Der isolierte Staat (1826; “
The Isolated State”). In it he imagined an isolated city, set in the middle of a level and uniformly fertile plain without navigable waterways and bounded by a wilderness. He used this model to demonstrate methods of maximizing agricultural production in...